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Abstract

Suspended silica and tungsten trioxide nanoparticles were dispersed into a microfluidic channel adjacent to a polymeric rib waveguide. Dielectrophoresis used to manipulate nanoparticles into forming various nanoparticle concentrations was capable of altering waveguide transmission properties.